The impact of public education extends beyond teaching kids their ABCs and how to use a globe. FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images
by Sidney Shapiro, Wake Forest...
Originally developed as a tool to help Black children attend better schools, school voucher programs now serve a different purpose. Drazen via Getty Images
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ICE’s surveillance gaze is likely to sweep across millions of people’s social media posts. Westend61/Westend61 via Getty Images
by Nicole M. Bennett, Indiana University
When most...
Activists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a...
Yelp’s Black-owned tag was designed to help business owners like Don Studvent attract more customers. His restaurant closed in 2018 after nine years in...
DEI has a long history. Nora Carol Photography via Getty Images
by Rodney Coates, Miami University
Few issues in the U.S. today are as controversial as...
Model Cities staff in front of a Baltimore field office in 1971. Robert Breck Chapman Collection, Langsdale Library Special Collections, University of Baltimore, CC...
Aaliyah as Akasha in Queen of the Damned (2002). Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo
by Francesca Sobande, Cardiff University
Black women’s influence on metal and connected sub-genres...